Ray Stewart (sprinter), Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Place of Birth: Kingston, Surrey County, Jamaica
About Ray Stewart (sprinter)
- Raymond Douglas Stewart (born 18 March 1965 in Kingston, Jamaica) is a former Jamaican athlete who specialised in the 100 metres event.
- As a junior athlete Stewart found much success at the CARIFTA Games, winning five gold medals within a four-year period.
- In 1984 he reached the 100 m Olympic final and won an Olympic silver medal for the 4×100 metres relay.
- At the 1987 World Championships he took silver in the 100 m and bronze with the Jamaican relay team.
- A leg injury in the 1988 Olympic final of the 100 m ruined his medal chances in both the individual and relay events. A new personal best of 9.97 seconds at the NCAA Outdoor Championships made him the number one ranked 100 m athlete in 1989 and the first Jamaican to officially break the 10-second barrier.
- At the competition he also recorded the third fastest relay time ever.
- He won his first Commonwealth Games medal the following year, taking bronze in the relay.
- Stewart recorded a national record of 9.96 seconds at the 1991 World Championships but this was surprisingly only enough for sixth place; two continental records and the world record were broken in the race.
- Stewart reached his third consecutive Olympic 100 m final in 1992, becoming the first man to do so.
- He reached the 1993 and 1995 World Championship finals of the 100 m but failed to medal.
- He attended his last Olympics in 1996. Stewart had a career that lasted almost twenty years, competing at four successive Olympic Games and six World Championships.
- He also won the 100 m at the Jamaican national championships seven times.
- His 100 m personal best of 9.96 seconds makes him the fifth fastest Jamaican sprinter in the event, after Usain Bolt, Asafa Powell, Nesta Carter and Yohan Blake.He went on to coach a number of prominent sprinters, including Jerome Young, but received a life-ban from athletics in 2010 as he had allegedly obtained performance-enhancing drugs for his athletes.
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